Well, I'm happy to report that we did really well with last week's menu plan! Other than the corned beef hash, we stuck to it 100%. I don't remember the last time that happened! We ended up having the hash today because we were short on potatoes by Friday, having had baked potatoes with our pork chops on Monday. When I realized on Friday morning that we didn't have enough, I stood in the middle of the kitchen, completely dumbfounded, looked at my 13-month-old and said "what ARE we going to have for dinner???" I have a pantry and two freezers full of food and I couldn't think of a single thing to make. Hence the need for menu planning! Fortunately I remembered that we had some leftover beef stew in the freezer and pulled it out. Once again, cook it once, eat it twice saves the day!
I'm also very proud of us because we only ate one meal out over the weekend. Usually we grab burgers or Taco Bell for lunch and go out for at least one dinner, but we're really trying to stick to our budget this month and that means limited eating out! At lunchtime we had two of our old standby's - grilled cheese and tomato soup on Saturday, and boxed mac and cheese with cut up Polish sausages in it on Sunday. If we're going to limit eating out, I'm definitely going to have to come up with more creative quick and easy lunches - this will get old fast!
At any rate, here's the menu for this week:
Monday: crock pot roast chicken (I got whole chickens for 69 cents a pound yesterday!)
Tuesday: calzones (I started with this recipe and then embellished (mine will have sausage in it, too, for instance). I made double filling last time so I just have to pull it out of the freezer this time!).
Wednesday: Chicken cordon bleu casserole
Thursday: leftovers
Friday: hamburger casserole
That should get us through the week! And remember, for more great menu ideas, visit Menu Plan Monday at orgjunkie.com!
P.S. I originally messed up the links and posted this link to how to make frozen hashbrowns instead of the calzone recipe! Oops! I'm also going to try making the frozen hashbrowns this week - I just bought a 10 pound bag of potatoes for $1 and I know we won't eat them all before they go bad!
2 comments:
Your menu sounds great! Thought I'd let you know, your link for the calzones goes to how to make homemade hashbrowns. I'm glad for the mistake, because you just let me to a great new blog for me to read - I love it, and can't wait to try the hashbrowns and lots of other stuff!
I would love the link to the calzones though! I would love to add those to my freezer meals!
Have a great week!
Oops! I was looking at that recipe too because I just bought 10 pounds of potatoes, which we'll never eat up before they go bad. I'll fix the original post to include both links!
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